Black & White Cookie Recipe

Hi all,
It was a great month and I hope to see many of you in the future. Since the black and whit cookies were my final project, I decided to share the recipe, just in case anyone wanted to make a few for themselves.
Lars

Black & White Cookies
Cookies
3C Flour
Scant ¾ Tsp salt
¼ tsp baking soda
1 1/3 C Sugar
2/3 C butter (slightly softened)
½ C white shortening
2 large eggs
2 ½ tsp vanilla
2 tsp white corn syrup
Scant ¾ tsp lemon extract
1/3 C sour cream

Fondant
¼ C light corn syrup
5 C powdered sugar
¾ tsp vanilla
2 oz unsweetened chocolate

Combine flour and baking soda in a separate bowl
Beat sugar, butter, shortening in another bowl
Add eggs, vanilla, corn syrup – mix well
Beat in ½ flour mixture
Add sour cream – mix until just blended
Add remainder of flour mixture

Let stand 5 minutes

Using a 1/4 C of dough at a time, make dough into balls and then pat them down with your hands on a cookies sheet

Bake at 350 degrees for 11-14 minutes (done when edge is light brown)
Let cool completely.

Fondant
Bring ½ C water and corn syrup to boil
Remove from heat and add powdered sugar, stir until blended and mixture is thick but can be spread
Chop chocolate and keep in separate bowl
To chocolate add 2/3 C fondant until chocolate melts, then another ½ C fondant
Ice cookies with fondant